April 1-7, 2019 — This first week of April found us exploring the great state of New Mexico. We have traveled through the state on the interstates twice before but never stopped to take in the sights. Wow is there a lot to see and do in New Mexico! The state is full of historic sites, national parks, monuments and forests, state parks, museums, mountains, waterfalls and rock formations.
Even with spending a total of eleven busy days in the state we were only able to explore a few of the vast quantity of amazing places New Mexico has to offer. Highlighted below are a selection of the stops we made. We didn’t include all of the sights as there were just too many to post!
We love to travel and explore but going strong day after day is exhausting! Our preference is to do excursions no more than three or four days a week with the remaining time spent relaxing, trip planning, doing housekeeping/maintenance tasks, blogging, etc. Since we are on a time crunch with a plan to be in Minnesota by the beginning of May we aren’t able to travel on the ideal schedule while still taking in the sights. Our compromise is to do as much as we are comfortable with and take notes for the next time we visit the area.
All nights this week were free stays with three nights at a Boondockers Welcome site, two nights at a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) site, one night at a Walmart, and one night at a Harvest Hosts location.